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in this month, it will be much greater trouble 

 to root them out afterwards. Nor ilioiid you 

 plant any kitchen herbs between your rows of 

 trees (as is by fome unfkilful and covetous per- 

 fons pradifed) ; for thefe will draw all the 

 nouriilament from the ^trees, and render them 

 weak and unhealthy. 



The middle of this month you muft look 

 over your grafts, and take off the loam from 

 them ; and thofe which were faflened with 

 bandages, fhould now be untied ; otherwife 

 the graft will be pinched at the ftock, and be in 

 danger of breaking off vv'ith the wind ; and 

 where there are any fhoots put out from the 

 flocks below the graft, they fliould be rubbed 

 off, otherwife they would rob the grafts of 

 their nourishment. You fliould alfo look over 

 your trees, which were budded the laft feafon ; 

 and where you obferve the leaves to curl up by 

 being infefted with infedls, you fliould take 

 them of?, otherwife they will fpoil the upright 

 flioot 3 and if there are any flioots produced 

 from the flocks, thefe fhould alfo be intirely 

 rubbed ofi\, for the reafon before given. 



Where your buds or grafts have m^ade vi- 

 gorous (hoots, it will be proper to fupport them 

 with (hort flakes, otherwife they will be in dan- 

 ger of being broken out of the flocks by flrong 



winds, 



